Re: link and run a (fortran) program redirecting its stdout/stderr

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/30/2009 01:00 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/30/2009 12:31 AM:
> > Should we also document that the ACTION-IF-TRUE part of
> > AC_LINK_IFELSE allows linked programs to be inspected (not necessarily
> > run) and that of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE allows compiled objects to be
> > inspected?
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> Hmm, those aren't done as often (about all you can do is run nm on it;
> that seems like something libtool might want to do, but who else does it
> to be worth documenting it?).

For AC_LINK_IFELSE you could run the program if not cross-compiling. 
That seems better than the AC_TRY_RUN(ac_link) that is usually done.

Paolo